Adopting medicare fee schedules
Subtitle: considerations for the California workers' compensation program
By: Barbara O. Wynn
Series: MR (Rand Corporation) -- MR-1776=ICJ
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Medical fees -- California; Medicare -- California; Workers' compensation -- California
Description: In response to rapidly increasing medical costs in the California workers' compensation program, the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation is recommending that the current fee schedule that determines the amount health care providers are paid be linked to Medicare fee schedules. This study examines issues arising from the differences between the two types of fee schedules, modifications that may be needed to tailor the Medicare fee schedules to California's injured workers, and the implications of automatic annual updates to the schedules.
Notes: "MR-1776."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Overview; title: Hospital inpatient fee schedule; title: Physician and other professional services; title: Hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center facility services; title: Other items and services; title: Findings and considerations